Long March-5 News
Earlier reports said the new Chinese space station will initially be much smaller than the ISS, which weighs 420 tonnes, but could be expanded for future scientific research and international cooperation.
The Australian International Airshow will be held from tomorrow to Sunday in Avalon.
The probe would land on the moon, collect samples and return to Earth.
The Long March-5 is a large, two-stage rocket with a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to low-Earth orbit, the largest of China’s carrier rockets.
China will send two new models of its heavy carrier rocket on their maiden space trips this year, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASC)
Bracing for its ambitious plan to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon before returning to Earth, China has shipped a carrier rocket from Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang'e-5 lunar mission around 2017.
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